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Interview with Olivia Cole: Her experience of crowdfunding.
Olivia Cole was campaigning to save The Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill; an independent bookshop that couldn’t afford the astronomical rent increase, and was therefore being sold off to become part of a wider bookshop chain.We asked her to talk to us about her experience of crowdfunding.
Promoting My Project
So… you’ve made your video, you’ve got some good pledge rewards and you’ve uploaded your project to a crowdfunding website…now what?! Sit back, put your feet up and watch the mon£y roll in?- I think not! Your campaign has only just begun. A project doesn’t just fund itself.
Our Five Favourite Projects For iPhone
An iPhone is a pretty cool accessory on its own; however there have been plenty of crowdfunding projects across the globe designing gadgets to enhance them further. Here we have our pick of some of the best crowdfunding projects we’ve seen for the iPhone. All five of them surpassed their targets and are currently well on their way!
Where Do The Most Creative Ideas Come From?
Though there are some ideas that can come to us like a bolt out of the blue, that is not to say that there is nothing you can do to help yourself along the way. And the truth is, the people who these brilliant ideas come to are often very prepared to receive them, whether they realise it or not. With just a few simple tips you’ll be well on your way to a more creative you, hopefully brimming with bright ideas!
The Power Of Online Community Funding
Now I could easily start listing cliché after cliché but more often than not, two heads are almost always better than one, and this is certainly true in the case of online community funding. The more the merrier in fact. This has been illustrated in a recent campaign, led by Olivia Cole, which aimed to save The Travel Bookshop from closing down in Notting Hill: The very same pokey little bookshop that is so famously known from the 1999 Hollywood film ‘Notting Hill’, staring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.